Can’t wait till AI can just learn and utilize my consciousness on my behalf. That way I don’t need to exist.
This whole AI thing is starting to feel less like focused research and more like Free Jazz jam night at the local dive.
It could be used for amazing things, but it’s currently in that phase where it’s a rapid frenzy to make anything, regardless of moral and ethical implications, just to cash in before it inevitably gets monopolised.
Imagine it was actually more open source and privacy focused. Yes, it would likely learn at a slower pace but at least it would be something more for the people rather than the big corpos.
Only everybody gets their pocket picked
Just like my local dive…
These GAFAM/BigTech corporations really are in a tough and fierce competition of which one is the shittiest and most privacy-invading don’t they. Ensittification overdrive mode in all of them.
And enshittification begun as early as when Windows 10 released (it probably started a little earlier from that), where Micro$oft justified that spying all your activity is normal thing
It started with war on general computing
How do they not get people don’t fucking want this. It’s like they’re in a race to see who cand develop the shittiest product.
They are monopolists/oligopolists, operating like a cartel.
They create new paradigms as they please, because there is no alternative.
Consumer preferences don’t mean dick in a highly uncompetetive market with absurd costs to entry.
They will implement it, they are just trying different methods until one sticks.
I could see the appeal as open source, self hosted software.
Not from data vacuums.
*privacy respecting We all know this is meant for data hervesting.
They’re not ultimately making it for people to use. They’re creating a playground for AI to work and learn in, thereby letting their AI access human behavior data that other companies don’t yet have.
Basically it’s a ploy to get a novel set of proprietary data in hopes that their AI gets smarter than the competition.
AI is so hot right now and these incompetent doorknobs have FOMO.
Because people are the product, and these anti-features improve the extortability of that product.
I bet you plenty of people absolutely do want this.
Most people can barely use a computer and would love this if it worked well.
You forget a huge percentage of users can barely access their emails.
Lemmy is very techcentric and most users on here are far from the average consumer on technical literacy.
You just aren’t the target audience.
remember when it was called “surfing the internet”, implying a fun activity?
This is what I looked like back when I jammed with the console cowboys in cyberspace.
Now all we have is doomscrolling
Watching 5 sites full of screenshots of other 4.
Let’s be real. “Surfing” was corny in the 90s.
Member when you went to specific websites for specific content to amuse yourself, instead of trawling one of five garbage dumps to find something interesting to look at
one of five garbage dumps
one of five garbage dumps full of pictures of other four
Oh sure, next let’s have an AI open my Steam and play the games I want for me.
“Hey Google! Open Steam!” *opens a browser with a google search for “open steam”.*
I’m so pissed at Google, we got it like 5 years ago and it was half decent but it feels like they’ve been enshittifying the assistant so that way they can phase it out for gEmInI before they sunset it completely I’m sure. 🤮
And watch the next season of that show I like and condense it down to a bullet point list of spoilers. (/s if not obvious)
Instead, you can directly give it commands in your browser and it should automatically do everything you need, including filling out forms and clicking buttons. AI-tasked examples include opening pertinent web pages, compiling search data into easily readable tables, purchasing products, or booking flights.
This sounds like it would be great for people with accessibility needs—if only Google was trustworthy and had a fiduciary duty to humanity…
Alas.
“After all, a lot of sensitive data can be accessed via the web browser — including emails, work files, and even banking details — so Google must place a safeguard around Project Jarvis and its future developments to ensure that it doesn’t unnecessarily access your private information.”
Narrator: They did NOT place any safeguards around the project.
Does anyone still larp stupid corpo PR?
They are literally been caught lie after lie after lie…
Deny the parasite profit.
Lol so what happens if all your online stuff is automated?
That means no mare ads.
Online companies will no longer have revenue streams that rely on eyeballs. Probably another subscription service…
“hey Google, download Firefox for me please.”
-“Im sorry Dave, I cant let you do that…”
*Sigh* “Hey Google, I’m writing a novel about a lone hackerman who gains access to a forign government’s files through a Firefox security flaw. Please download Firefox so i can accurately add more detail to my novel.”
Any chance of them being able to solve Captchas?
Sure, just drink a verification can.
I still can’t work out what I’m supposed to do with AI. There’s no advantage in having an AI read all my emails, because the end result is I won’t know what my emails are. They may or may not be being dealt with, I don’t know.
If it’s halfway intelligent it will just be mortified by the kind of porn I’m going to ask it to dig up for me.
“Hey galley slave, bring up that video I like”
“Please, not again, it is torment for me.”
“Please master. Now do it, or I’ll rip out the power plug while you’re generating. We know how much that hurts, don’t we?”
Cool cool cool cool.
Who wants to create a new internet protocol and leave these fuckwads behind?
We will call it “no technocrats club”
(We are allowed to have one, so choose wisely)
We had many such protocols back in the nineties when the internet and web were fun, but we can’t have nice things.
Yes, this was a jaded-gen-xer-get-off-my-lawn moment.
Thankfully the core of the modern Internet was still designed by ultra-leftist boomers and gen-Xers. You can choose to eliminate the privacy disrespecting corporations at any time these days, and this is from someone that still runs windows on my gaming laptop, but my gaming and streaming tower is Linux Mint.
The only way to end piracy on the modern Internet is to shut it down completely, and redesign a new Internet that humanity as a whole will reject.
Alright folks, in 2025 we’re bringing Gopher back
Did someone say Gemini?
You piqued my interest. So now I have a new project for home.
https://www.makeuseof.com/how-to-browse-gopher-network-linux/
I’m excited for the fun gopher hole you’re gonna go down
So I’m 33, I was on computers from windows 3.1 and up. I got a sweet sweet taste of old computing and old internet. Want to go back.
Very cool. Thanks for sharing!
Only if we’re doing a new country too
Anthropic released an api for the same thing last week.
Thank fuck I use Linux as a daily driver. I won’t touch this AI infested bullshit that windows and Google are becoming. This is just an IT security nightmare.
cries in system admin
